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So after The Book Of Bill brought the Gravity Falls fandom back, I thought I'd bring back my au:One Of Both, a hypothetical Season 3 where a shape demon like Bill ends up stuck in the human world as a human.
Now, I'll give an outline of her story as the revised 2024 version post Book of Bill.
She had no name she could remember. All she could remember was her big brother, Bill, calling her a 'Portal', so she called herself Portal. She lived in Euclydia with Scalene, Euclid, and Bill.
She couldn't see Bill well because he looked so different, but she loved her big brother anyway. Whenever nobody else would hang out with him because he was so different, Portal would. She thought the idea of stars was so amazing because Bill said she looked like one, sharp and shining. (Her shape demon form is like those stars you draw with the lines going through each other.)
One day, her brother told her he was going to show her and the rest of Euclydia the stars. He said that when they could all see the stars, he would let her keep one, a star he said shone the brightest each time he looked up. Portal was so excited to see these stars and hold this brightest star...
...but she never got to.
She remembered seeing her mom and dad burning. They were on fire, melting into the ground right in front of her. She remembered their pained screams, yelling for her to flee before the blaze reached her.
Portal tried to flee, but the hand of a giant creature picked her from the land and suddenly lifted her from her dimension. She felt her own being snapping and shifting into a shape reminiscent of Bill's. She cried out for her brother as she felt herself painfully changing, thinking he would save her like before. Like he had any time something or someone was hurting her, like he had promised her mom and dad to do.
Suddenly, she was flung from Euclydia, into the bright helm of the stars. She screamed, her voice as loud as her dad. She was flung through the stars and space until she stopped, and was afloat in a dark, desolate space of nothing for as far as she could see.
This lasted for a long time that Portal couldn't count. She stayed afloat in space, her only company her good (and bad) memories, along with something called an otter that had a body that blended in with the dark, but had eyes that looked like her short, twisted perception of stars. The only comprehensible by a human name that this thing had was 'Rusko'.
So, one trillion and twelve years of boring drifting through space, deep-rooted trauma, and the sanity-keeping company of Rusko. Portal is obviously getting tired of this, and needs a place like Euclydia to live in again. She begins praying to whatever will listen to give her this, and lucky for her, another powerful god-like sea creature answers her pleas.
The hand from before grabs her one day as she has tea with Rusko. She is lifted up to face The Axolotl, who promptly introduces themselves and explains why they saved her:Portal was to be a foil to quell Bill's lingering weirdness on Earth when he was eventually defeated. The Axolotl says they will bring Portal to earth with one power opposite of Bill's to protect and defend herself and others, and that she will find her own way to survive if she trusts the creatures there named humans. After the extra promise of Rusko tagging along as a familiar, they shake hands in a deal that will forever seal Portal's fate.
Now, as Portal falls through the stars, clinging to Rusko as her body changes once again, she's about to land in the middle of nowhere, but the start of everything.
She's about to learn what it means to be a human.